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  "Credible Claims: 
   The Effect of Committee Positioning on Congressional Credit Claiming."
   Authors:        Peter T. McLaughlin and Nathan T. Barron
   Published in:   American Politics Research
   Paper DOI:      10.1177/1532673X241309632
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### REPOSITORY STRUCTURE

Credible_Claims/
├─ src/
│  ├─ initialize.R
│  ├─ manuscript.R
│  ├─ appendix.R
├─ data/
│  ├─ survey-data.csv
│  ├─ pacs.csv
│  ├─ zips.csv
├─ README.txt
├─ renv.lock



### OVERVIEW

This repository includes reproduction files for McLaughlin and Barron (2025).

There are three annotated R scripts. The code that cleans the data is contained
in one file: `initialize.R`. Code related to figures or analyses presented in 
the manuscript can be found in `manuscript.R` while the code for those presented
in the appendix can be found in `appendix.R`. 

The primary data used in this project were collected from an online survey; 
these data are available in `survey-data.csv`. Additionally, the online
appendix uses two auxiliary data files: `pacs.csv` with US Census Bureau data
for determining population targets used in calculating survey weights, and 
`zips.csv` which connects each respondent's zip code to their most likely
Congressional district.

Finally, there is a lock file (`renv.lock`) that contains all information 
necessary for reproducing the computing environment in R either manually or via
the `renv` package in R.



### CONTACT
For information about the contents of this repository, please contact the 
corresponding author.



### PAPER CITATION
Pending